George Hodel person
also: Hodel, colleague
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▶ 1:05:25
The girlfriend said she thought he was in jail in Nicaragua. In the Chronicle clip I found noted that he'd been arrested in 91. Maybe, I hope, the Nicaraguans locked their drug lords up longer than we did. I was put in touch with a freelanc…
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Menendez or confirm or refute these claims. Headquarters trace Menendez reveal extensive entries, unquote. These extensive entries were not revealed in the declassified version of the CIA's IG report because they were damning. The DEA's pub…
▶ 22:32
If I would leave Blanton's DEA ties out of the story. But unfortunately, my colleague in Nicaragua, George Hodel, beat them to the punch. He had found the massive files of Menendez's 1992 court case in the Nicaraguan Supreme Court and had t…
▶ 22:58
The clerk says I am the first journalist ever to ask to see the files. Can you imagine that, Hodel said? All of the stories written about this case and not one reporter has ever looked at these files. I have one of my journalist students go…
▶ 23:28
He checked it with former Contra commander Eden Pastora. Pastora is the guy who refused to use drug money to fund his efforts in support of the Contras. And they got rid of him. He says that they were friends and business partners and that …
▶ 24:28
It was part of his defense that the Sandinistas persecuted him because of his work for the Contras. I told him my conversation with the DEA and suggested that we might want to get Menendez quickly before someone else did. He agreed and told…
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having been moved to a prison in the city of Granada after Menendez hired someone to kill him. He had already had put in a request at the Nicaraguan Ministry of Interior to arrange an interview, George said. I think we can speak to both of …
▶ 25:27
Had been running interference for Gary with the other editors until I got somewhat nailed down all of this information. But it seems pretty solid. We need to get to Menendez before the DEA does. So if you want to go ahead and set up intervi…
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He waited a week, then hopped in his car and drove to the prison where Miranda was being held. A nervous prison official informed him that Miranda was not available. Why not, George asked. Well, the official stammered out, unfortunately, he…
▶ 26:26
Because Miranda had been a model inmate and was almost at the end of his sentence. So does anybody believe he escaped with a death warrant on his head? Astounded, George drove to the police station to see how the manhunt for the notorious t…
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George's discovery was front page news in all of Managua's papers. An official investigation was launched. He supposedly escaped the same day I made the interview request, George said. My sources tell me he's in Miami and they say the DEA i…
▶ 28:12
put on the DEA's payroll as an informant soon after he got to Miami and was sent to Central and South America to do casework for the DEA. The DEA never bothered to inform the Nicaraguan authorities that it was harboring their fugitive. But …
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Menendez was willing to talk. George had cleared it through the drug kingpins, wives, and attorneys and urged me to come to Nicaragua as soon as possible. We needed to move quickly and carefully, he warned, because there was something about…